TV Show

Small Wonder

When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson brings home his top-secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I., life becomes anything but mechanical for the Lawson Family. With his boss and his nosy family living next door, Ted, his wife Joan and their son Jamie must pass Vicki off as a real child. It is easy for Joan, who cannot help doting on her like a daughter, but harder for precocious Jamie, who uses Vicki to do his homework and to ward off Harriet, the annoying redheaded girl next door.

TV Show Stats +8%

4 seasons

99 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1985

Rating

TV Show

6.9/10

150 votes • HD

Season 1

24 episodes
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Vicki's Homecoming
Episode 1

Vicki's Homecoming

Episode 1 • Sep 07, 1985

Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Episode 2

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Episode 2 • Sep 14, 1985

The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.

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21m
Robositter
Episode 3

Robositter

Episode 3 • Sep 21, 1985

Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!

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21m
Nerd Crush
Episode 4

Nerd Crush

Episode 4 • Sep 28, 1985

Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.

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21m
Runaway Jamie
Episode 5

Runaway Jamie

Episode 5 • Oct 05, 1985

Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.

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Lights! Camera! Ego!
Episode 6

Lights! Camera! Ego!

Episode 6 • Oct 12, 1985

Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power of directorial duties goes to Jamie's head.

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Season 2

24 episodes
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Root Beer, Women and Song
Episode 1

Root Beer, Women and Song

Episode 1 • Sep 20, 1986

Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.

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My Mother the Teacher
Episode 2

My Mother the Teacher

Episode 2 • Sep 27, 1986

Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.

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Vicki for the Defense
Episode 3

Vicki for the Defense

Episode 3 • Oct 04, 1986

Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.

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Homeless Causes
Episode 4

Homeless Causes

Episode 4 • Oct 11, 1986

Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.

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21m
The Hustle
Episode 5

The Hustle

Episode 5 • Oct 18, 1986

When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.

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Jamie's Older Woman
Episode 6

Jamie's Older Woman

Episode 6 • Oct 25, 1986

Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.

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Season 3

27 episodes
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Vicki and the Pusher
Episode 1

Vicki and the Pusher

Episode 1 • Sep 05, 1987

When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

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The Strike
Episode 2

The Strike

Episode 2 • Sep 12, 1987

A United Robotronics strike pits shop steward Ted against management rep Brandon; Joan has her students use the strike as a social studies exercise, which also goes awry.

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The Pool
Episode 3

The Pool

Episode 3 • Sep 19, 1987

While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.

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21m
Screaming Skulls
Episode 4

Screaming Skulls

Episode 4 • Sep 26, 1987

Jamie stumbles into the membership of a junior high gang whose vandalism tests his sense of belonging with right and wrong -- and inducts Vicki as its moll.

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21m
The Electric Potatoheads
Episode 5

The Electric Potatoheads

Episode 5 • Oct 03, 1987

Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

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21m
Geisha Vicki
Episode 6

Geisha Vicki

Episode 6 • Oct 10, 1987

To help Brandon get promoted to a job in Japan, Joan pretends that she's his estranged wife and that Vicki and Jamie are their kids.

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Season 4

24 episodes
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Big J, Private Eye
Episode 1

Big J, Private Eye

Episode 1 • Jul 23, 1988

Prompted by Ted and his class to get his school reading assignment going, Jamie videos a book report based on a 1940s P.I. named Rick Savage.

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School Monitor
Episode 2

School Monitor

Episode 2 • Jul 30, 1988

On their first day in junior high, Vicki becomes a hall monitor and Jamie tries to avoid Harriet for a dance while vying for a class fox. Meanwhile, Ted prepares to host a cybernetics conference.

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More About L.E.S.
Episode 3

More About L.E.S.

Episode 3 • Aug 06, 1988

L.E.S. is back, and despite Ted's assurances that the rogue A.I. program has been rendered harmless, it comes back in a big way by possessing Vicki's body (chassis?) as its own.

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21m
Game Show
Episode 4

Game Show

Episode 4 • Aug 13, 1988

The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.

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21m
Jailbirds
Episode 5

Jailbirds

Episode 5 • Aug 20, 1988

Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.

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21m
I Dream of Vicki
Episode 6

I Dream of Vicki

Episode 6 • Sep 18, 1988

To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.

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